About 884,000 deaths per year in the United States result from the high level of income inequality. In other words, if the U.S. had Denmark’s inequality levels, we would have nearly 884,000 fewer deaths per year.

Economic inequality has little to no impact on economic growth. Between 1979 and 2006, economic growth per capita was essentially the same in Europe and the United States, despite high rates of inequality in the U.S.

Inequality is making racial disparities worse in the United States. Nearly all indexes—income, wealth, educational attainment, homeownership and foreclosures—show growing gaps between whites and other races.

Orlando Patterson. July 2010. “Can't Call It Progress: African-Americans Are Earning Less Than Their Parents Did.” Alternet.

A majority of black middle-class children now earn less than their parents and almost half of the children had fallen to the bottom of the income distribution.